Okee! I am so PLEASED with the results from my Gakuen Alice one-shot! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU if you reviewed! I still have a list of 10 other stories I am going to put up, so if you are smart, put me on your author alert. I'm not going to guarantee you'll know the anime I'm writing about, but yeah! I might introduce you to a new fav anime! Okay, I'll get on to the story now!

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"Class, might I introduce a new student?" The teacher said, raising his voice so that the Day students would hear him over their incessant talking. About half of the class quieted down, and the rest continued their conversations in murmured whispers.

"This is Yoko Nakamura." A girl of medium height with dark, chocolate-brown, shoulder-length hair stepped forward. Amazingly green eyes surveyed the room, looking over each person for about a second, before moving on to the next.

The teacher turned to Yoko and said, "I hope you adjust to this school quickly." Flashing her a quick smile, he turned back to the class and searched for an empty seat. "Why don't you sit in the back, next to Zero." The teacher pointed out Zero, and Yoko silently climbed the steps to the back of the classroom, sitting in the seat to the right of Zero.

"Alright, let's get this show on the road," teacher said, clapping his hands for the classroom to become completely silent. Yoko watched as the rest of the class got out their textbooks, and she did the same, reaching into a small bag at her feet for the correct book. Realizing she did not have it, the girl clasped her fingers together and rested her elbows on the top of her desk, content to just listen to the lecture.

"Ms. Nakamura, please take out your Literature hardback." When Yoko did not move, the teacher suspected she did not have it. Sighing, he waved his hand and said, "Well, I suppose you'll have to share with Kiryu until you can get a copy."

Yoko nodded silently and turned her head a bit to look at Zero. To her bemused surprise, the boy was sleeping peacefully, head resting upon the desk in such a position so that the teacher could not tell he was asleep.

Smiling, Yoko leaned back so that she could see inside of Zero's desk. The inside was littered with papers, but his textbooks were lined up neatly at the back. Reading the labels, she easily found the Literature book, and pulled it out by it's spine, placing it discreetly between her and the sleeping boy, so as not to ruin the boy's sleeping act.

Following along in the book, Yoko would often cast glances at the sleeping boy. Turning the pages slowly in an attempt to keep him asleep, she took notes with one hand, the other holding down the paper, moving only to turn another page in the textbook.

Before long, the bell rang for classes to switch. Yoko tucked her notes into the hardback and placed it at the corner of Zero's desk. Grabbing her bag, she stood up and pushed her chair in, knocking the chair and desk together enough to stir the boy next to her. Seeing her actions were not enough to wake the heavy-sleeper, Yoko tapped his head roughly as she walked behind him to the classroom door, causing his head to fall out of his hand, hitting against his desk in an undignified manner.

"Damn, what the hell?" the boy asked sleepily. He rubbed his forehead, before noticing he was the only one left in the classroom. Grabbing his Lit. hardback from the edge of his desk and reaching under his desk for his math book, he tucked both books under his arm and ran down the stairs to the classroom door, thinking, When did I put my Literature hardback on my desk? And why is there a paper in there? I'll check later, but if I don't hurry, Yuuki is going to kill me. I just hope she didn't notice I was asleep most of last period. I'm not even sure if I can stay awake next period.

Zero made it to his next class just in time for the bell to ring. Panting, he slumped over to his seat, not paying attention to the teacher that was scolding him for almost being late. Zero was so preoccupied with getting to his seat, he didn't even notice the new student who had taken the normally empty seat next to him.

Collapsing into his chair, Zero dropped his hardbacks on his desk, causing a loud thunk to resonate throughout the room. No one really noticed, however, because the students were talking loudly as usual. Zero watched his classmates for a bit, before he remembered the page that had appeared in his Lit. book. Curiousity taking over, he tugged his hardback out from under his math book and opened the page the paper was in.

Reading over the page, Zero quickly found out that it consisted of notes, probably what he had missed while he was asleep. Skipping over all of the educational crap, he came down to the bottom. A small note had an asterick next to it. It read:

You should try staying awake in class. It's amazing you aren't flunking, if this is your normal lifestyle.

Zero laughed out loud. This person was cocky enough to take notes for him, and then chide him for making his own decisions. Tucking the notes back into his English hardback, he reminded himself that what they said was true, and that he'd be wise to not flunk out of an easy class. His good grades were his protectors. The one time he had gotten a terrible grade, Yuuki had chewed his ass off about falling asleep, getting his homework done, etc.

And he wasn't going to go through that again.

"Alright class, it's time to start," a perky voice said from the head of the classroom. Without further ado, the class quieted down, and followed the lesson. Zero listened to the teacher speak, but only listening gets boring after a while. Looking around the classroom, he spotted Yuuki, who was busy doing practice problems. From his vantage spot, he could just barely make out his friend's tiny, tiny writing.

Wait, Yuuki writes with small handwriting, but the note's handwriting is slightly larger. That means she didn't create the notes. But if she didn't, who did?

Zero was startled when he heard a muttered curse coming from next to him. No one sat next to him in this class...did they? Looking to his right, Zero was even more surprised to find a girl with dark brown hair and emerald green eyes rummaging in a small bag. Apparently finding what she was looking for, the girl pulled out a small pouch and dropped her leadless pencil into it, taking out another sharpened one.

Zero watched in interest as the girl dropped the bag to her feet after replacing the pouch, and then went back to writing. She wrote in a curly script, much like the one on Zero's notes. Zero looked over the girl's shoulder most of the period, not even paying attention to the lesson. When the bell rang, he was so surprised he almost fell backwards out of his chair.

Grabbing his unopened hardbacks, the boy followed his new desk neighbor out of the classroom, back to homeroom. Hanging back at the doorway, he waited for her to take her seat, and wasn't as surprised when she took the seat next to his.

Taking his regular place, Zero decided to ignore the new girl for the time being. Placing his hardbacks into his desk, he took out his history hardback. Silently, he watched as the other students trickled back in, taking their seats and continuing their conversations from the last period.

"Zero!" a cheerful voice came from behind him. Zero turned his head to take in Yuuki's form. "What?" he asked.

Yuuki smiled at him with her best smile, and Zero got the sinking feeling in his stomach that meant the girl wanted something. "Did you take notes for Literature this morning? I, um, fell asleep half-way through the class." Yuuki muttered the last part with an air of defeat. Zero blinked and realized that she didn't know he had fallen asleep also. Remembering the notes tucked into his hardback, he dug the book out and shook the paper out of the pages.

"Yeah, here," he said, handing Yuuki the page of notes, completely forgetting the note at the bottom. "Just be sure to give them back later." Yuuki hugged her 'brother' and skipped of to her seat, which was only two rows down and a few seats to the right.

This period, the class imediately quieted when the teacher opened the door. Rumbling in his deep voice, the toughest teacher in the Day Class boomed, "Everyone, open your books to page 167 and prepare to take notes." Turning ot the chalkboard, the teacher started writing and Zero tried to copy the rough handwriting down onto his own piece of paper. Giving up after the first 15 minutes, Zero put down his pencil and sighed.

Looking next to him, Zero wasn't surprised to see the girl still writing in her curly handwriting. She would glance at the chalkboard, copy a sentence or two down, glance up again, copy the sentence...over and over again. Zero was somewhat placed into a trance by her movements, and that trance ended when the teacher called his name.

"Kiryu! Who was the first Japanese empress?" the strict teacher demanded.

Zero shook his head and looked down at his notes. He had not written that note down, and the teacher had erased the board in order to write even more notes. Silently, the girl next to him underlined something on her paper and slid the paper over to his desk. Reading the underlined, Zero said, "Her name was Empress Suiko."

"When was she born, and how long was her rule?" Geez, the teacher wasn't going to let up so easily. Rrereading the notes surrounding the underlined answer, Zero found his answer and read, "She was born in 554 A.D., and her reign spanned from 593 A.D. to her death in 628 A.D."

The teacher nodded approvingly, and urned back to the chalkboard. Zero slid his neighbor's notes back to her, mouthing the words 'thank you'. The girl just smiled back at him and began to copy down the newest set of notes.

Zero leaned back and copied down a few more notes unconsciously. His mind wandered, until he came to a single conclusion.

That girl's notes have saved me twice today. I wonder...

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Omeegosh! This story is amazingly easy to write! Things get a bit messy in the next chapter! Please, review!

Also, the thing about Empress Suiko is true! Just search for her name on wikipedia, you'll find out all kinds of interesting things! And, because I don't know any of the teachers' names, I'm just going to refer to them as 'teacher', or 'the teacher'. Kay? Kay.